From Stonehenge to Easter Island, journey through the ancient cultures and megalithic sites of the world to discover the timeless spirituality that connects them all.

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In the cycles of the sun and stars, in the movements of the earth and the cosmos, the message of a journey to enlightenment is written.

Many thousands of years ago, ancient seers understood this – revering the sun as the highest symbol of divine consciousness, and its light the spiritual source of creation. Its major stages at the solstices and equinoxes became the dominant alignment of sacred sites all over the world, as well as central events in the lives of many spiritual figures. Today, these ancient remains can still be decoded to reveal their message of spiritual enlightenment.

The roots of this knowledge trace to a distant time before a global cataclysm destroyed a prior civilization. After this disaster, mysterious wisdom-bringers are recorded as traveling the world on a divine mission to establish this cosmic knowledge anew and initiate the spiritual beginnings of our current human age. They oversaw the building of some of the most enigmatic sacred sites on the planet, and gave rise to a civilization of the religion of the sun that extended across much of the earth.

However, over time, strife and persecution took its toll, and after a while it was lost–left in scattered fragments that echo a bygone era of great spiritual knowledge. The Path of the Spiritual Sun aims to restore this lost knowledge – exploring the sites, symbols, and sacred texts connected to the ancient spirituality of the sun – and provide celebrations and ceremonies to re-enliven its transformative practice once more.

This book includes:

Hundreds of images and illustrations

Hundreds of excerpts from the world’s sacred texts

Detailed descriptions of over 40 ancient sacred sites

Step-by-step guides to celebrating the solstice and equinox

The meanings and cosmological origins of many ancient symbols

Review on Aksworld

Most people are familiar with Stonehenge and other similar sites around the world, built by the ancients to celebrate their mysterious rites of the summer solstice, and the solstices and equinoxes in general. However, the real meaning, i.e. the esoteric significance of these events, is largely unknown to the modern world.

This book, by authors Belsebuub (Mark Pritchard) and Lara Atwood, is probably the most complete and readable on the subject for seekers of esoteric wisdom…

This theme is explored in rich depth through a detailed examination of esoteric wisdom and also archaeological/historical research. The book’s 476 pages contain a wealth of quotations from ancient sources to back up the profound points being made…

What is particularly striking about The Path Of The Spiritual Sun is how well written, clear, and reader-friendly the book is throughout. Far from trying to impress by being obscure and academic to all but the initiated, as so many esoteric books tend to be, the authors strive throughout for clarity and communication, both through the written text and the illustrations. This makes the book a joy to read, and the reader is well rewarded for the time spent doing so.

From the Book

The Path of the Spiritual Sun uncovers a highly significant knowledge, which has the potential to both decode and explain much of the ancient spiritual wisdom of the past.

It is not an encyclopaedic style compendium of research on the celebration of the sun—that would be a much bigger book, would serve little real purpose in terms of practical understanding, and would also be very boring! Instead it aims to synthesize the deeper meaning behind the celebration of the spiritual sun as something that can be practiced today just as the ancients did thousands of years ago. It uncovers the lost threads that connect the very process of spiritual transformation, with the movement of the heavens and the earth, as well as the remaining fragments of ancient spiritual knowledge we have access to today.

It describes why so many ancient sacred sites align to the sun’s major annual stages (the solstices and equinoxes), why so many ancient spiritual teachings share similarities with one another and the sun even though separated by great distances, and reveals the common roots behind many of the religions and traditions still practiced today. I will go so far as to say that the knowledge of the spiritual sun acts as a virtual Rosetta Stone of ancient spirituality.

~ Lara Atwood, from the preface of The Path of the Spiritual Sun

Topics Covered

How the religion of the sun traces its origins back to a prior civilization, popularly referred to as Atlantis

How ancient wisdom bringers took the religion of the sun throughout the world after Atlantis was destroyed

How the religion of the sun was used to form the basis of a lost global civilization that built pyramids and megaliths throughout the world

How the ancient religion of the sun has come down to us today in various wisdom traditions

Why ancient peoples all over the world and separated by vast distances, venerated the sun

How some of the most iconic religious and spiritual symbols can be found in the movements of the cosmos

In-depth explanations of the meaning behind spiritual symbols, myths, sites, and sacred teachings from around the world

The spiritual meaning of the autumn, winter, spring, and summer solstices and equinoxes

Ceremonies and rituals to celebrate the solstice and equinox today, based on actual ancient celebrations

A practical guide to revitalizing the spiritual traditions from around the world that celebrate the sun with a rediscovered understanding of their profound meaning

An exploration of the many ancient sites that align to the solstice and equinox, and the spiritual symbols they contain

Ancient Knowledge

Explore the ancient religion of the sun, which is an understanding of creation and the cosmos tapped into by many ancient peoples and mystics.

A Lost Global Civilization

Discover the spirituality practiced by a lost global civilization that built hundreds of pyramids and megalithic sites all aligned to the sun and stars.

Ceremonies for Today

Follow the step-by-step guide to celebrating the solstice and equinox, and connect with these times of year as peoples did thousands of years ago.

"Indiana Jones" meets the Solstices & Equinox! This book is no fiction, yet page after page, it just feels like I'm on the trail of a hidden mystery, like a treasure hunt - uncovering bits and pieces of human history, of human spirituality and it all makes sense.

From listing many ancient sites in the world who are dedicated to these moments of the year, explaining many different spiritual texts and passages and how they relate to the Solstices and Equinox, and unveiling important details which are hard to find even if you know what you are looking for - this book is simply amazing.

It's quite awesome to reflect on how universal this solar spirituality is when you study it. Hundreds (if not thousands) of ancient sites, from the pyramids at Giza, to the moai statues on Easter Island, all incorporating the solstices and equinoxes. Not to mention the same principles taught in major sacred texts everywhere.

I've always felt a pull toward the equinoxes and solstices, and what they could be about. This book really satisfied a lot of my curiosity with in depth historical research and explanation, as well as examples of ancient ceremonies that can still be practiced easily today to connect with the solstices and equinoxes and the deeper meanings. It also connects all the dots with the various sacred sites from all around the world that seem to have been used for equinox/solstice celebrations. I've been trying the examples of solstice/equinox ceremonies from this book out over the last few years and I have to say they've been quite a unique and powerful experience and is something I look forward to every year. This book is definitely one that you could read and re-read and always get something out of. Highly recommend!

About the Authors

Mark Pritchard (writing with the name Belsebuub) is the author of a number of books on out-of-body experiences, dreams, self-discovery, and esoteric wisdom. An early edition of his book The Astral Codex became a bestseller in its genre, and Gazing into the Eternal was a finalist in the Best Book Awards 2009 in Spirituality. He has appeared on radio and television programs internationally, and writes from decades of spiritual and mystical experience, while Lara Atwood contributes with the research into history, cosmology, ancient sites, and sacred texts.

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We believe spirituality is not something you can price tag, and that it should be passed onto others just as freely as it’s received. We work in the ancient and time-honored way of running on what people give voluntarily in donations alone. In line with this principle, we used to give all our books away as free eBooks – The Path of the Spiritual Sun was downloaded over 30,000 times. However, they were so extensively plagiarized that we’ve had to provide them as paperback books instead. We continue not to receive any payments from their sale, which helps keep their price as close to cost as possible.

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Question: My mother was born March 22, my daughter was born June 21 and myself and identical twin sister was born September 22. Is there any special meaning that we are all women born on a Soltice or Equinox?

I’m not sure about it signifying a special meaning or purpose in relation to the brithdays of you and your family, but I do know that those moments in the year inherently are a very special time in themselves. Pivotal points in nature’s story that carry a deeper meaning which we as humans can tap into, feel personally, explore and learn from. So I think it’s a wonderful time to have your birthday on 🙂

As you’re probably aware, the configuration of the planets and stars at the time of someone’s birth is said to affect their personality and even predict their life’s path. I would imagine that since the solstices and equinoxes are astrological events of significance, that these would also have their own unique affect on someone born at these times. The date of someone’s birth is worked out by higher Beings, and so the fact that you are all born on either a solstice or equinox indicates to me that these higher Beings wanted to create a certain astrological influence upon your family. I personally don’t know exactly what that influence is, only to say that there are very spiritually conducive and positive energies active on the solstice and equinox.

Both the Searching Within and Astral Codex books are unavailable at the moment. The prices you are seeing on Amazon are set by resellers of the book that we have no affiliation with or control over – they set their own prices based on a book’s availability. Our publisher does not receive any money from the sales made by resellers, and nor do we, as we make no money from the sales of our books at all.

Searching Within and The Astral Codex will be printed again, but I am not sure when.

If you are interested, the book that is available at the moment is The Path of the Spiritual Sun.

Thank you Mark and Lara for the most amazing book on the spiritual sun ,it has been so inspiring and insightful to read so uplifting ,Thank you so such for all the efforts it must have taken. Warm regards Carmel Muir

To mark, lara and everyone that was involved in making this book available to the public.

Thankyou so much for giving us access to this timeless knowledge. I would just like to say how impressed i was with the wisdom that has been brought forward. It is obvious how much research has been done, especially in regards to referencing. I really like how exact and precise everything in this book is, as it leaves no rock unturned.

I am very grateful for the opportunity to study the spirituality of the sun.

We just got our book!I can’t believe the size and amount of content! What a revision indeed – I’ve only been able to read a few relevant part, but it has been so informative and inspiring. So just wanted to quickly say Thank you Mark, thank you Lara for such an amazing profound work.

Yes, I agree…I just got my book via booktopia and it is indeed larger than I expected,
It is full of details and a vast amount of knowledge for referencing from.
Thanks heaps Mark & Lara for your time and effort on this.

We got our book as well! It’s really stunning. From what I’ve read so far I’m absolutely blown away. It feels like a vital piece of the puzzle on humanity’s spiritual roots has been rediscovered and is now on my bookshelf. Incredible! Thank you Mark and Lara and the MLP team for making this available, it’s an incredibly inspiring book!

The Path of the Spiritual Sun book in paperback should be available around the last week of August. It will be available on Amazon worldwide and from other online book retailers. You can stayed tuned to Belsebuub.com for updates on the release of the book.

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